Illinois · Private foundation
Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $152k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $168k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $181k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $166k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Christian Church | $54,795 | 4 | n/a |
| Share the Magic Foundation Inc | $32,227 | 1 | 3% |
| Midwest Clean Food and Water Movement | $27,246 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Support Services | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church | $22,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Gibault High School | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cahokia Community Baskets | $21,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Immaculate Conception School | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maple Grove Civic Association | $18,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Christian Church | $54,795 | 4 | n/a |
| Share the Magic Foundation Inc | $32,227 | 1 | 3% |
| Midwest Clean Food and Water Movement | $27,246 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Support Services | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church | $22,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Gibault High School | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cahokia Community Baskets | $21,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Immaculate Conception School | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maple Grove Civic Association | $18,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Rockford Council | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kaskaskia-Cahokia Trail Coalition | $7,140 | 1 | n/a |
| Linc Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation give?
- Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $152,252 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Hope Christian Church ($55k), Share the Magic Foundation Inc ($32k), Midwest Clean Food and Water Movement ($27k).
- Does Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation based?
- Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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